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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1903
Page
3
A guide on skinning and butchering deer hides with cautions on throat cut placement and hide handling. Instructions cover salting amounts, removing tail bones, drying methods, and storage to avoid sun exposure and improper drying, noting pricing differences for cured hides and shipping bundling.
Eastern horticulturists push a lime sulfur and salt wash as an effective San Jose scale remedy in California and on the coast. Experiments across Illinois, Georgia, New Jersey, and New York show the wash works even in poor weather, though preparation varies with lime content and proportion. The method, using iron kettles and a vigorous boil, is recommended to orchardists as a promising control, with cautions about swindlers and advisory notes on bean planting practices.
Mr and Mrs Mahaffey and Mr Miller announce free eye examinations for one more week extending to May 9. No one is urged to buy. Glasses priced from two to six dollars.
Defective vision sufferers urged to seek expert eye fitting at the Arlington Hotel and Homes Hotel in Pittsburgh. Testimonials from Wm. M. Fletcher and Mrs. G. W. Achre praise precise bifocal and corrective lenses, noting relief from headaches, dizziness, and eye strain after consistent use.
The United States Geological Survey with Pennsylvania will survey Johnstown and vicinity for a 225 square mile topographic atlas sheet. Contours will show 20 foot intervals. roads boundaries towns and villages will be accurately located. The survey covers Cambria Indiana and Somerset counties with towns such as Jolene town Cambria City Giestown Scalp Level Elton South Fork and Summerhill. The Conemaugh river and its South Fork feed Cone-mangh Lake near the 1889 flood site. Rogersville quadrangle in Greene county also included with gas oil and coal interests. B D Cummins of Johnstown leads with J G Hamilton and others assisting.
Meeers J P Jack and T A Macenure served as field assistants while J Hoover and A J Steckly filled roles as jewelman and rodman in the cited project.
Ex county commissioner C F Murray urges prospective purchasers of graveside monuments and markers to write directly for prompt, cheerful estimates and samples. J F Steving, funeral director, announces new undertaking and embalming focus after joining Steving and Sutton. Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil advertised for croup emergency.
A New York Times excerpt recounts Clarence’s struggle with basic senses during early schooling. The scene shows his frustration at the nose’s function, as laughter erupts while he answers questions about the five senses.
A fragment notes advertisements claiming Dr Kings New Life Pills rejuvenate users in two weeks. D H Tanner of Dempseytown Pa reports late night vitality, while local druggists including Daugherty Bros Indiana Pa Moore's Homer City Pa and L N Parks Marion Center stock the product for 25c.
A council resolution declares the 1903 04 tax levy for the Borough of Indiana. It sets 12 mills for operating expenses and 4 mills for the sinking fund on the assessed valuation of all taxable property, with funds appropriated in the usual manner.
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